Shipping receptacle



W. C. KLAUSER SHIPPING RECEPTACLE Filed Oct. 2 1920 Patented Get. 16,1923.

, ST TE ima e WIL IAM fli-LAUSER, or HARTFORD,-GON1\TEGTIGUT. w

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drawings. These clips are rigidly secured to the hoops, as by means ofrivets passed through the clips, hoops and barrel chimes.

The end hoops, as well as the intermediate hoops, are secured together,as to the ends of each hoop, by means of interengaging threaded studsand sleeves. Each hoop is provided near its opposite ends with ears22-23 and a threaded stud 24: is secured in any suitable manner to eachof the ears 22, and an anchoringstud- 25 is secured may be desired toeach of the ears 23. A fastening sleeve '26 is mounted on a squared part27 of each anchoring stud, said sleeves having threaded openings toreceive and engage with the threads on the studs 24 as a means fordrawing the ends of the hoops toward each other to bind said hoopstightly and thus securely hold the barrel sections together.

It will be noted that my improved bar-- rel is of an extremely strongconstruction and amply sufiicient to successfully withstand the'roughusage common to the handling of freight. Vhile the construction of thepackage is such as to involve consider able initial expense, yet thefeatures of strength enabling the package to be used time and time againreduces the eventual expense of each package, when'compared with thepresent method I of using a package only once, to a point below the zeromark.

It will be further noted thatthis round structure is such that whenknocked down or disassembled, the parts may be compactly arranged bynesting one within another and thereby economizing in shipping andstorage space, This provides a structure in which, aside from the bodyand the heads,

.there are no detached parts, all of the fastening devices being.integral with one or the other of these members. The hoops are rivetedto the staves and the fastening mem bers are all riveted or secured totheir respective parts so that nothing but a wrench or a screw-driver isrequired to take the package down or set it up. All of the parts are,therefore, intact and there is no danger of loss of any of such parts- Iclaim Y l. A shipping package comprising a plurality of sections, eachformed in cross section substantially on the arc of a circle, bandsencircling said sections" at a distance from the lengthwise centerthereof, flanges extending peripherally around and from said bands toprovide 'a rollingrest for said package and a protection for means forsecuring the ends o-fthe band, and means for securing the ends of theband together.

2. A shipp-ingpackage comprising a plurality. of sections, a bandextending around said sections to securerthem together, ears projectingfrom 'saidband, studs extending having a screw threaded opening .toengage the screw threaded end of the other of said studs to draw theends of the band together.

3. A shipping packa e comprising a. body part with an open enc, a flangeextending inwardly near the mouth of said opening, a head resting uponsaid flange, latches pivotally secured to the body part, and means'forremovably securing the latches to said head to hold it in place. i

4;. A shipping package comprising a body part with an open end, agrooved band fitting over the edge of said open end, a flange extendinginwardlywithin said open end, a head resting upon said flange, latchespivotally supported bysaid band, and means for removably securingsaidlatches to said head.

5. A shipping package comprising a body part with an open end, latchespivotally secured at the edge of said open end, a head for said openend, a rest for-said head, and

means for removably securing said latches to said head. 1

6. A shipping package comprising a body part with an open end, latchespivotally secured at the edge of said open end, a head for said openend, a. rest for said head, a band secured to the outer face ofsaidhead, and means for removably securing latches to said band. I

7. A shipping package comprising a body part with an open end, a groovedband fitting over the edge of said open end, grooved clips fitting overthe edge of said band and secured thereto, latches pivotally supportedon said clips, ahead, meansfor supporting said head, and means forremiovably securing said latches to said head.

8. A shipping package comprising abody part with an open end, groovedclips fitting over the edge of the open end .of said package, latchespivotally supported on said clips, a head, means for supporting saidhead, and means for removably securing said latches to said head. I

9. A shipping package comprising a plurality of sections, a bandextending around said sections to securethemtogether, ears projecting.from said band, studs projecting through said ears, a fasteningsleevehaving an unthreaded opening engaging the unthreaded end of one ofsaid studs, to permit movement of the sleeve toward and from theopposite stud to engage the screw threadedend thereof to draw the endsof the band together.

10. A shipping package comprising a plurality ofsections forming, whenplaced together, a round structure withv an open end and graduallyincreasing in diameter from each end to the lengthwise center thereof,and bands extending around said sections on said opposite sides of saidlengthwise center; said bands with separated ends extending around bandshaving flanges ofa width to support ,the structure on opposite sides ofsaid cen- 10 the package upon its side. ter, flanges extending from saidbands peri- 11. A shipping package comp-rising aplupherally thereof, andmeans for securing the 5 rality of sections forming when placed ends ofthe hands together and projecting together, a round structure with anopen end therefrom' a distance less than thewidth of and graduallyincreasing in diameter from said iflanges.

each end to the lengthwise center thereof, WILLIAM G. KLAUSER.

